Manager, Software Engineering
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You'll lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of software engineers experienced in event-driven, cloud-native, and full-stack systems, delivering solutions that meet the needs of the business and customers. You'll collaborate closely with product managers to deliver robust cloud-based solutions, and you'll make key decisions on design, architecture, and delivery. You'll build teams, actively coach and mentor engineers, and help them grow their careers. You'll drive agile development practices, continuously improve team processes and technology choices, and champion transparency and partnership between engineers and business partners. You'll engage in technical discussions to influence business decisions, ensure work meets quality and architectural standards, and participate in the on-call rotation as part of the you-build-it-you-run-it ethos.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency with the software development lifecycle and engineering excellence processes
- Experience with Agile methodologies and leading moderately sized projects
- Technical savvy to guide complex technical discussions and weigh tradeoffs
- Skilled operator of Agile practices and data driven methodologies
- Deep knowledge and experience with Microsoft languages/frameworks (C#/.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework) ideally
- Expertise with Azure (Function Apps, Service Bus, etc.) a bonus
- Experience developing people and building high impact teams
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of software engineers
- Collaborate with product managers to deliver cloud-based solutions
- Make decisions on the design, architecture, and delivery of systems
- Build teams and coach and mentor team members
- Drive agile development and analytical methodologies
- Improve operations, processes, methodologies, and technology choices
- Interact with teams, customers, and peers to improve cross-department processes
- Ensure transparency and partnership between engineers and business partners
- Engage in technical discussions and propose technology solutions
- Ensure work meets quality, operational, and architectural standards
- Participate in the on-call pager rotation
- Mentor engineers to help them grow into technical leadership roles
- Break down complex, ambiguous problems into actionable work
- Champion engineering best practices including observability and incident response
- Partner with Product and Customer Success teams on scalable technical solutions
- Collaborate across distributed teams in Ireland, the U.S., the Philippines, and Australia
- Influence product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the development lifecycle
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices
- Lead post-mortems and blameless retrospectives
- Own critical systems end-to-end from design through production support
- Take responsibility for production reliability and incident prevention
- Make technical trade-off decisions and communicate the reasoning
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages
- Team offsites, bonding activities, and happy hours